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From: foonberg@aerospace.aero.org (Alan Foonberg)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X on a PC
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Date: 3 May 90 14:18:12 GMT
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Reply-To: foonberg@aerospace.aero.org (Alan Foonberg)
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Someone here at our shop wants to know if there is a "subset" of X11 that can
be run on his PC.  He wants to be able to run the PC in a stand-alone mode, not
networked to any other machines, not acting as an X Terminal on some other
host.  He wants the environment to be self-contained.  In other words, he wants
to be able to call Xlib routines and see results on his PC.  He doesn't want
networking support or the client/server interface.  His goal is to be able to
write X11 programs and run them on his PC, and eventually port them to a
traditional X11 environment.  I understand that X11 is a client/server
protocol, and that the package I'm looking for might not be considered to be X
Windows.  But, if there is such a beast, either free or commercial, please let
me know.

Thanks,

Alan Foonberg
foonberg@aerospace.aero.org